A study of people in 15 countries reveals that while everyone favors rhythms with simple integer ratios, biases can vary quite a bit across societies.

Adaptive smart glove from MIT CSAIL researchers can send tactile feedback to teach users new skills, guide robots with more precise manipulation, and help train surgeons and pilots.

An MIT study finds the brains of children who grow up in less affluent households are less responsive to rewarding experiences.

At the MIT Blueprint Labs Preschool Research Convening, practitioners present studies on early childhood education and discuss future directions.

Two studies find “self-supervised” models, which learn about their environment from unlabeled data, can show activity patterns similar to those of the mammalian brain.

It’s not easy to parse young children’s words, but adults’ beliefs about what children want to communicate helps make it possible, a new study finds.

New research suggests daily mindfulness training at home helped reduce kids’ stress levels and negative emotions.

In a simple game that humans typically ace, mice learn the winning strategy, too, but refuse to commit to it, new research shows.

The Jameel World Education Lab awards more than $900K in Education Innovation Grants to researchers across MIT.

Tactile stimulation improved motor performance, reduced phosphorylated tau, preserved neurons and synapses, and reduced DNA damage, a new study shows.